Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that greatness can pay to mediocrity.
I’m completely on board with this mockery.
I will point out, however, that the author of the article has misunderstood the underlying issue a bit.
During his second term, Trump has also signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” even though parts of it lie in international waters.
Things in international waters need to get named somehow, and basically what happens is that each country gets to choose what to call it. There are frequent disagreements. Even if you look at “Gulf of Mexico”, “of” is English, so probably Mexico didn’t use that exact name.
No, the issue isn’t that Trump tried to rename something in international waters. It’s that the rename is meaningless and petty, and that it’s for something that all Americans already knew and had no problem with. It’s extremely likely that if our democracy survives, the next president will order the name back to the original one.
I mean, we call it Cologne, Germany, and we renamed Tahoma – the fuck does any of this matter? Dude is accused of fucking children, our economy and the cost of living gets worse by the day, our civil liberties are not so much being violated as much as they are completely ignored and systemically violated, we’ve entered yet another endless war, and he can’t even establish a competent cabinet let alone govern – but sure let’s talk about his goofy executive orders that can be fixed with the stroke of a pen when he’s finally out of office.
It only matters because people voted Trump in despite him being convicted of so many felonies and despite him being found civilly liable for sexual assault and despite the fact that he’s just so transparently a real life villain.
So if all of that isn’t convincing, what do you do? One thing is you can emphasize how embarrassing Trump is. Some people will change allegiance just to not feel like an embarrassing loser.
It’s just increasingly hard for me to believe that there weren’t election shenanigans – how the fuck did this guy get elected a second time?! Not only is that an illustration how terrible our population is at electing people, but it’s also an example of how terrible the Democrats are at selecting and running candidates. Fucking depressing.
In Mexico, the gulf is called “Golfo de México” in Spanish.
Wow, that’ll really show them!
I’ll never understand the blind worship these dudes get.
Millions of people come out to protests and it’s “not enough”, and everyone has a criticism. “Why bother if you’re just going to schedule it for a few hours of a Saturday and then go home?”, “you Americans never actually do anything beyond performance.” Etc.
Meanwhile, two multimillionaire Libertarian douchebags make the lamest most toothless fucking “statement”, and everyone here trips over themselves to jerk them off and give them some kind of credit.
Like Jesus Christ people, they haven’t actually done a single fucking thing.
It’s not even good satire. Like let’s break it down for a moment (I know, that’s how you ruin jokes, but I don’t think we need to worry much with this one): how does changing their name to add “America” to it do anything to mock, berate, etc. Trump?
I’m sorry but, “hahaha look, we can add the word ‘America’ to the title like you! Isn’t that funny?” just doesn’t cut it for me satire-wise. To a narcissist like Trump, this is basically a compliment.
And it’s kind of crazy to see so many otherwise intelligent -seeming people line up to suck them off over this.
Go read A Modest Proposal and lament at how far our satire skills have fallen.
These are two men with obscene amounts of money, and we’re praising them for this?
Talk about low standards.
I think the low standards result from the fact that, unlike Bush-era satire, Trump is pretty close to being ignored except for the last season of South Park. During the Bush era, every cartoonist and satirist was falling over themselves to highlight Bush’s shittery, such that the current media world in comparison is a defaening silence. And it would be wonderful for things like this to lead to Trump becoming the joke Dubya was by the end of his shitshow.
Wait… I think something’s not quite right about that… Can’t quite put my finger on it though…
JD will need a bucket o’ rags
It’s almost so perfect I’d guess they named the show 28 years ago just so they could pull this off today.
so perfect
Really? “Perfect?”
Honest question: why does everyone seem so impressed with this?
It’s sobering to think they are pretty close to the Thomas Paines of our time.
Let’s not glaze them too hard. South Park’s “both sides” bullshit, “giant douche or turd sandwich” politics and “ManBearPig” habit of treating earnest concern as proof that you were the sucker went a long way to convincing a generation or two of young men that cynically sneering at sincerity and being intellectual lazy is really very principled. I say this as a fan, but they realized FAR too late that the stakes were real, and there is a strong argument to be made that the US wouldn’t be where it is right now if not for Parker and Stone.
It would make more sense if they named it America Park.
I guess the joke is partly because South America is a continent and its supposed to highlight stupidity.Congrats on getting the joke
Duh. It’s just a roundabout way instead of actually digging at Trump.
It wouldn’t make more sense, but it would be funnier
It would be both imo. Trump would rename a park called South Park to America Park, not South America.
Well which is a dumber choice? America Park or South America?
I would argue that choosing South America is dumber, because that’s already a thing. And I’m asserting right now that the dumber choice is funniest.
I find America Park much more amusing and topical. The dumbness was renaming things, not how dumb he renames them.
He didnt call it the America of Mexico or America Ontario, which is the same as South America.
I am sure the chief orange pedo will approve.
